Was James too jealous?
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Re: Was James too jealous?
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I completely agree with this. His behaviour at times made it difficult to tell if it was truly love or jealously. I think the society had a big impact on him, cos he lacked proper communication of his feelings in a matured way.Marija Savic wrote: ↑09 Jan 2022, 11:02 James reacts very inappropriately in some situations. I'm not sure if it's just his jealousy or inability to say and do what he wants. I believe that his behavior would have been different if society had approved of his views.
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I really like how you interpreted James's behaviour in relation to his past and his friendship with Lily. I also agree with your first line, all this reflection doesn't negate the fact that he was being jealous or any of his other traits. It's just thay sometimes when you study a person, you can understand them and still not deny the facts.Charlize Venter wrote: ↑09 Jan 2022, 09:02 I may agree with you here...
The thing one needs to take into account is the influence that James’s father had on his personality. A lot of that jealousy, I assume, must have been engrained by the meandering that Jesse left on and in his son.
The jealousy can also be understood in the sense that in the beginning of the friendship in childhood, Lily and James shared and incredibly beautiful friendship; then their friendship was discovered and, subsequently, Lily was taken from James. She was taken from him before. The effect of her being taken from him in this manner is intensified when one notices his jealousy: how painful it must have been for young James to lose someone so close to him (an abrupt taking of a loved one), just as he had abruptly lost his mother-permanently lost her. Yet, Lily is still alive. This must heighten a fear of losing her again -permanently- as he lost his mother to death.
The fear of losing her again must fuel his jealousy, he tries to avoid the danger in the pain of even the slightest possibility of losing her again.
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His jealousy often seems very stupid. Perhaps this is the influence of the slave-master society on his poor brain. James was used to seeing people as his own things, and this kind of perverted his psyche. A perverted society can transform even love into something strange.
As many people have mentioned here, James is afraid of losing Lily again. So he is over-protective about her too.
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